Quotes 221 till 240 of 643.
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In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
On War (1832) -
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.
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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
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In war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.
On War (1832) -
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
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Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.
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Is there war in our religion? No; neither war nor bloodshed. Yet our enemies cry out bloodshed, and oh, what dreadful men these Mormons are, and those Danites! how they slay and kill! Such is all nonsense and folly in the extreme. The wicked slay the wicked, and they will lay it on the Saints.
Danites Journal of Discourses, 12:30 (Apr. 7 1867) -
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.
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It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
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It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but murder.
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It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.
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